vendredi 12 avril 2013

Another Steubenville? California Teens Arrested in Sexual Assault and Suicide Case


Another Steubenville? California Teens Arrested in Sexual Assault and Suicide Case



Three California teen boys have been arrested and charged with the alleged sexual assault of their classmate while she was intoxicated and passed out at a house party. 

Audrie Pott, 15, whom police have named publicly at the wishes of her family, later committed suicide by hanging herself after photos of the attack were posted online, in a case similar to the teenage sexual assault of a high school student in Steubenville, Ohio, last year. A judge found two boys in that case guilty

The California incident occurred in September 2012 when Pott, who attended Saratoga High School, went to a party at the home of a friend whose parents had gone out of town. She passed out and was allegedly attacked as she was unconscious. When photos of the alleged rape spread online, the traumatized student posted on her own Facebook page that it was the "worst day of her life." 

Eight days later, she hanged herself. 

"Poor Audrie was terrorized by cyber-bullying," an attorney for Pott's family, Robert Allard, told the San Jose Mercury News. "After an extensive investigation that we have conducted on behalf of the family, there is no doubt in our minds that the victim, then only 15 years old, was savagely assaulted by her fellow high school students while she lay on a bed completely unconscious." 

The family, which has set up a charitable foundation for music and art scholarships, two of Audrie's passions, is calling for a new law bearing their late daughter's name. 

"Audrie's Law would address some of the things that happened here," Allard told the paper. "There are two common elements here that are being repeated across the country – sexual assault by an adolescent and the cyber-bullying that follows." 

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